South Africans have gathered to mourn the death of Nelson Mandela – and celebrate his colossal life.

David R. Ellis, the American director of the 2006 thriller "Snakes on a Plane," has died in South Africa.

THE former Garryowen, England and New Zealand rugby coach John Mitchell has been stabbed in a break-in at his home in Johannesburg.

SOUTH AFRICA goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune believes the World Cup hosts should be fearless in approaching all three of their opponents in Group A.

SOUTH AFRICAN police used pepper spray to stop scuffles and a pensioner died in a queue as thousands of fans rushed to buy 500,000 World Cup tickets being sold over the counter for the first time yesterday.

THE LIONS camp is united in the belief that Saturday’s opening game was a tough day at the office – but David Wallace is one of the few players who gets a chance to redeem himself right away.

Ashwin Willemse was the shock inclusion when South Africa coach Jake White named his team on Friday to play Wales at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Saturday, November 6.

THE meal that poisoned a group of senior All Blacks before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final was eaten at a restaurant outside the team hotel, a hotel executive has claimed.

About 10,000 protesters marched from a squalid township to the glittering venue of the World Summit to press demands for everything from land redistribution to a Palestinian state.

Ten thousand environmentalists and social activists are protesting outside the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.

THERE were mounting fears last night that the Earth Summit in Johannesburg would fail to reach agreement before world leaders arrive for the climax of the meeting next week.

WITH a call for an end to the “global apartheid” between rich and poor ringing in their ears, delegates to the Earth Summit in Johannesburg began talks yesterday aimed at relieving poverty and healing the planet.

As the UN environmental summit got under way today, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian groups held the first in a series of planned protests.